A fire in the brain : Lucia Joyce
Blocked : writer's block
True confessions : Italo Svevo
Quicksand : Stefan Zweig
The frog and the crocodile : Simone de Beauvoir
Becoming the emperor : Marguerite Yourcenar
A hard case : Primo Levi
European dreams : Joseph Roth
The neapolitan finger : Andrea de Jorio
The saintly sinner : Mary Magdalene
After the ball was over : Vaslav Nijinsky
Heroes and hero worship : Lincoln Kirstein
"Sweet as a fig" : Frederick Ashton
American dancer : Jerome Robbins
Second act : Suzanne Farrell
The soloist : Mikhail Baryshnikov
The flame : Martha Graham
Dancing and the dark : Bob Fosse
The bottom line : Twyla Tharp
On the contrary : H.L. Mencken
After the laughs : Dorothy Parker
Feasting on life : M.F.K. Fisher
Finding Augie March : Saul Bellow
Piecework : Sybille Bedford
The spider's web : Louise Bourgeois
Assassination on a small scale : Penelope Fitzgerald
The hunger artist : Susan Sontag
Counterlives : Philip Roth
Perfectly frank : Frank O'Hara
Devil's work : Hilary Mantel
Burned again : Joan of Arc.